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Wade Mainer

Banjoist/vocalist Wade Mainer was an influential body whose innovative two-fingered finding technique expanded the original clawhammer design and helped pave just how for the three-finger virtuosity of contemporary bluegrass players like Earl Scruggs. Mainer was created in 1907 and elevated on his family’s little mountain plantation near Weaverville, NC, where …

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